Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks September 2015 (Internet) | Page 2

Ones and Zeros
TL;DR: internet be cray.

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hen the annals of man are written and humankind has come to
its final rest, an alien species will observe there were three key
developments to our society: Fire, The Wheel, and a little thing called
the Internet
Our ability to connect with total disregard to space is incredible. It
defies thought. It is the new market-place, it is the town-square, it is
the forum of public opinion. Without it, we are veiled; with it, we are
empowered.
And yet there is a dark side to this technology. Deep under the belly
of the beast lies a realm devoted to cat videos and children making
funny noises at their parents. If you search hard enough you will find
memes meming memes, meaning having lost all context as a great gyre
appears, sucking sense and reason down into facile facetiousness.
And there’s the actual Dark Web where you can buy a gun loaded
with meth to inject starving children into your penal gland, or whatever
goes on down there. We don’t know, they only take BitCoin and we
were never into Minecraft.
lol, pop culture, etc, etc.
There is beauty in the internet. It’s not exactly on facebook, and it’s
rare to be seen on twitter. It’s nearly a mix of instagram and editorials
about the state of man on glossy journals. Whatever it is, we’re all a part
of it now. Even those who reject it become a feature of it.
This is who we are,
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